Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
the Fourth Week after Easter
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Literal Standard Version

Job 41:21

His breath sets coals on fire, || And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leviathan;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Coal;   Leviathan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Coal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bellows;   Breath;   Soul;   Spark;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviathan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Breathing;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leviathan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Breath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Flame;   Forth;   Leviathan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His breath sets coals ablaze,and flames pour out of his mouth.
Hebrew Names Version
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
King James Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
English Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
New Century Version
Its breath sets coals on fire, and flames come out of its mouth.
New English Translation
Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.
Amplified Bible
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
New American Standard Bible
"His breath sets coals aglow, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
World English Bible
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Its breath kindles coals,And a flame goes forth from its mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.
Contemporary English Version
while its blazing breath scorches everything in sight.
Complete Jewish Bible
Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.
Darby Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
His breath sets coals on fire, and flames shoot from his mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, like a flame spreading round the sides of a pot.
Good News Translation
His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.
Lexham English Bible
Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth.
Literal Translation
His breath kindles coals and the flame goes out from his mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His breth maketh the coales burne, the flame goeth out of his mouth.
American Standard Version
His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
Bible in Basic English
His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
King James Version (1611)
His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His breath maketh the coles burne, and the flambe goeth out of his mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.
English Revised Version
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His breeth makith colis to brenne, and flawme goith out of his mouth.
Update Bible Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Webster's Bible Translation
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame issueth from his mouth.
New King James Version
His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.
New Living Translation
Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
New Life Bible
His breath sets fire to coals. A fire goes out of his mouth.
New Revised Standard
Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His breath, setteth coals ablaze, and, a flame, out of his mouth, proceedeth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(41-12) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
Revised Standard Version
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Contextual Overview

11Who has brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] Mine. 12I do not keep silent concerning his parts, || And the matter of might, || And the grace of his arrangement. 13Who has uncovered the face of his clothing? Who enters within his double bridle? 14Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible. 15A pride—strong ones of shields, || Shut up—a close seal. 16They draw near to one another, || And air does not enter between them. 17They adhere to one another, || They stick together and are not separated. 18His sneezings cause light to shine, || And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn. 19Flames go out of his mouth, sparks of fire escape. 20Smoke goes forth out of his nostrils, || As a blown pot and reeds.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 18:8, Psalms 18:12, Isaiah 30:33, Habakkuk 3:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:9 - went Job 39:20 - the glory

Cross-References

Genesis 41:9
And the chief of the butlers speaks with Pharaoh, saying, "I mention my sin this day:
Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh has been angry against his servants, and puts me in confinement in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;
Psalms 37:19
They are not ashamed in a time of evil, || And they are satisfied in days of famine.
Isaiah 9:20
And cuts down on the right, and has been hungry, || And he devours on the left, || And they have not been satisfied, || They each devour the flesh of his own arm.
Ezekiel 3:3
And He says to me, "Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I am giving to you"; and I eat it, and it is as honey for sweetness in my mouth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. Hyperbolical expressions, which the above observations may seem to justify.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His breath kindleth coals - It seems to be a flame, and to set on fire all around it. So Hesiod, “Theog.” i. 319, describing the creation of the Chimera, speaks of it as

πνέουσαν ἀμαισάκετον πῦρ

pneousan amaimaketon pur.

“Breathing unquenchable fire,” So Virgil, “Georg.” ii. 140:

Haec loca non tauri spirantes naribus ignem Invertere.

“Bulls breathing fire these furrows ne’er have known.”

Warton

A similar phrase is found in a sublime description of the anger of the Almighty, in Psalms 18:8 :

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And fire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile